Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Competition in public procurement is not limited to financial competition; it is a key source of innovation and guarantees the fair allocation of public contracts. If not resolved quickly, these issues could lead to higher costs, less innovation and missed opportunities to improve public services.

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Public Procurement Procurement Tender Framework Agreement 52

The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 19, 2024

The goal is to clarify any technical or procurement-related aspects, ensuring that all potential participants have a comprehensive understanding of the requirements. Opportunity for Questions: These meetings provide a platform for prospective bidders or consultants to ask questions and seek clarifications.

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Bidding Bidder Consulting Participation 52

BLP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The Government of Guatemala promotes two competitive public procurement events (tenders) for the construction or expansion of hospitals, with financing from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI). Significantly, the winning bidders must ensure the availability of funds during the contract’s term.

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Finance Bidder Tender Public Procurement 52

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

They leveraged Paraguay’s high quality, publicly accessible open contracting data to measure the existing participation of these smaller businesses and to understand their challenges in working with government buyers. Fewer than 300 MSMEs participate in a procurement market worth almost US$3 billion annually.

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Procurement Tender Public Procurement Bidder 62

Telles.eu

JULY 14, 2023

This was due to the issue of the economic advantage gained by the preferred bidder (consortium led by Alstom) where all other tender participants could have obtained the same benefit.

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Tender Manufacturing Bidder Participation 100

Scottish Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The SPD is a standard questionnaire that allows buyers to identify suitably qualified and experienced bidders. Bidders will use their SPD response to indicate whether their organisations meet the requirements to participate in the procurement exercise. It contains questions on both exclusion and selection criteria.

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Buyers Procurement Bidder Public Procurement 44

Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Paola Diegues is a self-proclaimed public procurement enthusiast. Their business facilitates access to procurement information, providing powerful analytics that help companies to search for new opportunities, prepare bids, and evaluate their performance on past tenders. They currently service 30 clients in Latin America.

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Data Public Procurement Tender Price 57

Naomi Clews Consultancy

JULY 20, 2023

Public Procurement Report The latest National Audit Office (NAO) report provides detailed recommendations for UK Government departments’ to maximise the benefits of effective competition when they run public procurement processes.

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Framework Agreement Public Procurement Supplier Bidding 52

Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

VIGIA is a unique initiative that allows entrepreneurs to easily find public procurement business opportunities in Paraguay, as well as provide real-time high-quality feedback about irregularities. The idea of having suppliers as an ally actively participating in tagging wrongdoing had an immediate appeal.

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Tender Public Procurement Supplier Participation 52

Scottish Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The SPD is a standard questionnaire that allows buyers to identify suitably qualified and experienced bidders. Bidders will use their SPD response to indicate whether their organisations meet the requirements to participate in the procurement exercise. It contains questions on both exclusion and selection criteria.

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Buyers Procurement Bidder Electronics 40

BLP

AUGUST 24, 2023

Expression of interest: Bidders seeking to participate in the public tender must state their interest in obtaining the procedural documentation by email to adqinstitucionales@bcie.org. You can find the Terms of Reference of the public tender at this link.

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Tender Integration Integrity Management 52

Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

Challenge : The City of Des Moines in Iowa wanted to leverage procurement to improve equity and sustainability, but knew its current procurement processes and tools were insufficient. Targeted vendor outreach The Des Moines team knew that increasing vendor participation would require doing more to reach vendors where they are.

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Procurement Sustainability IT E-procurement 52

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

The 2020 European strategy for data ear-marked public procurement as a high priority area for the development of common European data spaces for public administrations. As the PPDS Communication stresses To unlock the full potential of public procurement, access to data and the ability to analyse it are essential.

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Procurement Public Procurement Buyers Thresholds 52

Bonfire

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Paywalls can shrink your bidder pool. Organizations that charge for bid documents run the risk of appearing less attractive to the vendor community and reducing their bidder pool. By eliminating vendor paywalls, you lower barriers to entry and encourage more diverse suppliers to participate.

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Eprocurement Bidder Bidding Influencing 52

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 7, 2024

In the Opinion in Kolin Inşaat Turizm Sanayi ve Ticaret ( C-652/22, EU:C:2024:212 , hereafter ‘Kolin’), Advocate General Collins has argued that only economic operators established in countries party to international agreements on public contracts that bind the EU may rely on the provisions of Directive 2014/25/EU.

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Tender Procurement Participation Contract 49

How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This Op-Ed is based on the assumption that public procurement law is not and cannot be insulated from these changes – veritable seismic shifts – and from recent policy and normative actions taken by EU institutions. The Council also called ‘for resuming discussions on the EU’s international procurement instrument’ (see here ).

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Public Procurement Tender Participation E-procurement 64

Open Contracting Partnership

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Civic participation can play an important role in monitoring risks in government procurement projects that may lead to uncompetitive practices, wasteful spending and project delays. In Indonesia, members of the public can file official complaints about suspicious procurement practices. Of those, 70 cases were rejected.

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Procurement Tender E-procurement Bidder 62